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POWERless LCD displays from Kent Display

Everytime I goto ESC (Embedded Systems Conference), it seems like Kent displays is among the top pioneers of powerless LCD displays.

If you have any apps requiring powerless LCDs (that’s right, they are powerless!), I suggest you check these guys out.

Yes, these LCD are cool, I’ve seen them in real life, they require no POWER! You need power to change to displaying text or graphics but once you set them, they require no power…very useful, I believe a lot of new products are being developed using these LCDs…kinda pricey though…

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GSM / GPS modules & Arduino boards @ Spark Fun

I’ve checked out some GPS modules before but this one from sparkfun seems to be the one to use,

it’s small, easy-to-use, well, i am going to find out soon by ordering one…

It’s got a serial interface and its own RTOS and you can customize the ARM7TDMI if you want to and you are that advanced…

and try to see if i can make a gps enabled car graphic screen in 1 minute!

hehe… 🙂

Make has a nice article on it here:

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Microchip introduces new Ethenert ready PIC microcontroller series

Microchips PIC18XXXXX series chips pack 10 MIPS of processing power, TCP/IP stack, and lots of peripherals.

Check it out at Microchip’s website

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DIY – Build a digital thermometer in 1 minute!

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Okay, it seems like the only class I really enjoyed in college was the embedded computer class. All the other circuit classes and computer language classes bore the hell out of me because they was no actual physical result.

With embedded computers, you actually physically get to see stuff and that’s what I liked about it.

Well I started w/ the Motorola MC68 series microcontrollers and it took me almost a week to make a digital thermometer. I had to make everything fro

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MSR206-3HL Swipe Magnetic Card Hi-Co Reader/Writer

Now if you need to start writing your own credit cards or card system for your own institution,

here’s a review of a good card writer that can be enabled via rs232.

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Card Reader via RS232

On the other hand, if you need a card reader to connect to your computer or industrial controller via RS232,

you can go with something like this.

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DIY – Digital Altmeter

Nice little altmeter…

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DominoBotNXT

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Wow, you can build some nice robots w/ the latest Lego Mindstorms…

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DIY – Make an alarm system in 3 minutes! (Part II – Add a motion sensor)

[gv data=”tsRT6wdaXks”][/gv] The other day I was walking through RadioShack and found this neat little Motion-sensing Door Chime/Alarm.

Since I already had an alarm system, I decided I could simply add a motion-sensor to my existing alarm system.

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Bartending Robot for your late night cocktails.

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Here’s a bartending robot for your late night cocktails.

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